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Tone colour |
Also known as timbre. Tone colour is what allows a listener to identify a sound as being produced by a specific instrument and to differentiate between instruments of the same type. |
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Texture |
The layers of instrumentation used within a piece of music |
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Monophonic |
One melody, one instrument |
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Homophonic |
One melody that doesn't meet, two or more instruments |
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Polyphonic |
Two or more melodies, crossed over played by two or more instruments |
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What centuries did the orchestra evolve? |
The orchestra evolved between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries |
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Name the positions of the drums |
Crash & Ride, Toms, floor toms, kick or bass, snare |
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What ways can a string instrument be played? |
By a bow, plucking, strummed, hit or tapped |
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How are percussion instruments played? |
By hitting or shaking the instrument |
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How are brass and woodwind instruments played |
By blowing into the instrument with your mouth into the mouthpiece |
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Who composed Ode to joy and Symphony no.5 and was their disabilty? |
Beethoven, became deaf |
